The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.The company seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and …

India was the one of the largest economies in the world, for about two and a half millennia starting around the end of 1st millennium BC and ending around the beginning of British rule in India.. Around 500 BC, the Mahajanapadas minted punch-marked silver coins. The period was marked by intensive trade activity and urban development. By 300 BC, the Maurya Empire had united …

Dutch India (1605–1825) Danish India (1620–1869) French India (1759–1954) Company Raj (1757–1858) ... Cast copper coins along with punch marked coins are the earliest examples of coinage in India, ... with coins in the name of the East India Company, bearing the image of William IIII. In 1840, these were replaced by coins with an image ...

Dutch India consisted of the settlements and trading posts of the Dutch East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.It is only used as a geographical definition, as there was never a political authority ruling all Dutch India. Instead, Dutch India was divided into the governorates Dutch Ceylon and Dutch Coromandel, the commandment Dutch Malabar, and the directorates …

The English venture to India was entrusted to the (English) East India Company, which received its monopoly rights of trade in 1600. The company included a group of London merchants attracted by Eastern prospects, not comparable to the national character of the Dutch company. Its initial capital was less than one-tenth of the Dutch company’s. Its object, like that of the …

The Netherlands Indies gulden was the unit of account of the Dutch East Indies from 1602 under the United East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC), following Dutch practice first adopted in the 15th century (gulden coins were not minted in the Netherlands between 1558 and 1681 and none circulated in the Indies until a century later).

By the 18th century all rivalry had ceased between the British East India Company and the Dutch or Portuguese counterparts. The French had also established an East India Company under Louis XIV and had two important stations in India – Chandernagar in Bengal and Pondicherry (now Puducherry district ) on the Carnatic coast, both governed by ...

The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency of India.The rupee is subdivided into 100 paise (singular: paisa), though as of 2022, coins of denomination of 1 rupee are the lowest value in use whereas 2000 rupees is the highest.The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India.The Reserve Bank manages currency in India and derives its …

A map of India in the 2nd century AD showing the extent of the Kushan Empire (in yellow) during the reign of Kanishka.Most historians consider the empire to have variously extended as far east as the middle Ganges plain, to Varanasi on the confluence of the Ganges and the Jumna, or probably even Pataliputra. Buddhism Hinduism Zoroastrianism: Demonym(s) ...

The Amsterdam (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɑmstərˈdɑm] ()) was an 18th-century cargo ship of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC). The VOC was established in 1602. The ship started its maiden voyage from Texel to Batavia on 8 January 1749, but was wrecked in a storm on the English Channel on 26 January 1749. The shipwreck …